Welcome to my site. This is a work in progress, so I'll be updating it occasionally throughout the year.
I finished my undergraduate studies in 2007 and received an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence from the
University of Toronto.
Then, I obtained a Master's degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence -
Computational Linguistics), also at the University of Toronto. My supervisor was
Graeme Hirst.
My research revolved around the topic of political opinion mining - specifically, extracting the ideology of a speaker from debate speeches. Ideally, we would be able to automatically determine whether a person is a Liberal or a Conservative, based on what they say. This work is a combination of
sentiment analysis and
text classification.
I was born in Russia, grew up in Latvia, but I've been in Toronto for the past 14 years. So I have 2 native languages (English and Russian) and I've also studied French, Spanish, and German.
I'm a certified Tennis Instructor and I give lessons in the summer. You can check out my tennis resume
here.
Also, I've taught APS 101 (Computer Programming for Engineers) at the University of Toronto in the Winter of 2009. You can visit the course website
here.
Otherwise, feel free to look around the site to find out more.
